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Subject: RE: 1.7.0: Getting a Windows app to run synchronously to a script 	from  which it is invoked
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:37:02 -0500
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Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:17 AM:
> Hmm.  What kind of "softlink" are you talking about?  Is that a
> Windows shortcut created by Windows?  Or is that a Cygwin symlink?
> If the latter, did you create the symlink way back when, or did you
> create the symlink under Cygwin 1.7?  If the latter, the symlink
> is probably not a Windows shortcut anymore, rather the other Cygwin
> style of symlink which is a file with the SYSTEM DOS attribute set.
> In this case it's no wonder Windows opens the file, rather than to
> follow the shortcut to its target.  I made the change because the
> SYSTEM type shortcuts are faster.  If you want to have the Windows
> shortcut style symlinks back because you use them to interoperate
> with native Windows tools, you have to set the CYGWIN=3Dwinsymlinks
> option now.

This is a change from 1.5, right? The 1.5 user guide says "winsimlinks"
is the default, and the 1.7 user guide says "nowinsimlinks" is.

It seems like this change was missed in
http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html

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Bryan Thrall
FlightSafety International
bryan DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT com

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